I know that you're there... and you have something to say.
Lets' hear it.
But seriously. Do Fitness and Lap Swimmers really read this Forum?
I wish they did, but I doubt they see the potential.
Fitness and Lap Swimmers, I'm a masters swim coach.
I watch your lanes - oh maybe 15-20% of the time I coach the masters lanes.
I see those of you lurking on the side lanes listening to the sets - and to the stroke instruction...
Watching swimmers underwater for stroke demonstrations.
Its' ok - and a really good thing.
A decent masters swim coach knows how to recruit right out of those lap swimming lanes.
Ahelee
P.S. I loved reading the thread, "As an outsider to harcore swimming..."
Finally some swimmers after my own heart.
Except that I like to recruit lap swimmers to our program!
I have a lot of respect for the pure "lap swimmers" out there. The kind that can knock out 3000 or 4000 yards non stop. The kind that put on a swim snorkel and don't come up again until they are through.
I am the kind of swimmer that can max out about 1500 of straight lap swimming (and I have to be really "in the zone" to do that). The swim coach was invinted for people like me, that would not get much more than 1/2 hour per day if someone was not pushing us to do more.
I have a lot of respect for the pure "lap swimmers" out there. The kind that can knock out 3000 or 4000 yards non stop. The kind that put on a swim snorkel and don't come up again until they are through.
I am the kind of swimmer that can max out about 1500 of straight lap swimming (and I have to be really "in the zone" to do that). The swim coach was invinted for people like me, that would not get much more than 1/2 hour per day if someone was not pushing us to do more.
